if( ! empty( $custom_autoresponder ) )
				{
					$message = '<div class="avia_custom_autoresponder">' . wp_kses_post( balanceTags( $custom_autoresponder, true ) ) . '</div>';
				}
				else
				{
					$mess  = nl2br( $this->form_params['autoresponder'] );
					$mess .= '<br /><br /><br /><strong>' . __( 'Your Message:','avia_framework' ) . ' </strong><br /><br />';
					$mess .= $message;

					if( ! empty( $this->form_params['autoresponder_after'] ) )
					{
						$mess .= '<br />';
						$mess .= nl2br( $this->form_params['autoresponder_after'] ) . '<br /><br />';
					}

					$message = apply_filters_deprecated( 'avf_form_autorespondermessage', array( $mess ), '4.6.4', 'avf_contact_form_autoresponder_mail', __( 'Allows stack modifications', 'avia_framework' ) );
				}

				$mail_array['Message'] = $message;

				/**
				 * Allows bulk changing of mail content
				 *
				 * @since 4.6.4
				 * @param array $header_array
				 * @param array $new_post
				 * @param array $this->form_params
				 * @param avia_form $this
				 * @return array
				 */
				$mail_array = apply_filters( 'avf_contact_form_autoresponder_mail', $mail_array, $new_post, $this->form_params, $this );

				/**
				 * Add keys to remove from $mail_array when forming the header string
				 *
				 * @since 4.6.4
				 * @param array
				 * @param string $context
				 * @return array
				 */
				$skip_mail_array_keys = apply_filters( 'avf_skip_mail_header_keys', array( 'To', 'Subject', 'Message' ), 'autoresponder_mail' );

				$header = '';
				foreach( $mail_array as $header_key => $header_value )
				{
					if( in_array( $header_key, $skip_mail_array_keys ) )
					{
						continue;
					}

					$header .= $header_key . ': ' . $header_value . " \r\n";
				}

				if( $use_wpmail )
				{
					wp_mail( $mail_array['To'], $mail_array['Subject'], $mail_array['Message'], $header );
				}
				else
				{
					mail( $mail_array['To'], $mail_array['Subject'], $mail_array['Message'], $header );
				}
			}

			unset( $_POST );
			return true;
			//return wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message , $header);

		}

		/**
         * Check the value of an element
         * The check_element method creates checks if the submitted value of a post element is valid
		 *
         * @param string $id holds the key of the element
         * @param array $element data array of the element that should be created
		 * @return string					'valid' | 'error'
         */
		protected function check_element( $id, array $element )
		{
			if( isset( $_POST ) && count( $_POST ) && isset( $_POST[ $id ] ) && $this->do_checks )
			{
				switch( $element['check'] )
				{
					case 'is_empty':
						if( ! empty( $_POST[ $id ] ) || $_POST[ $id ] === '0' )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'must_empty':
						if( isset( $_POST[ $id ] ) && $_POST[ $id ] == '')
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_email':
						$this->autoresponder[] = $id;
						if( preg_match( "!^[\w|\.|\-]+@\w[\w|\.|\-]*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,20}$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_ext_email':
						$this->autoresponder[] = $id;
						if( preg_match( "!^[\w\.\-ÄÖÜäöü]+@\w[\w\.\-ÄÖÜäöü]*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,20}$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_special_email':
						$this->autoresponder[] = $id;
						/**
						 * see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail-Adresse#Der_Lokalteil_(Local_Part)
						 */
						if( preg_match( "/^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~ÄÖÜäöü]+@\w[\w\.\-ÄÖÜäöü]*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,20}$/", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_number':
						if( preg_match("!^-?\s*(0|[1-9]\d*)([\.,]\d+)?$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_positiv_number':
						if( preg_match( "!^[0-9]\d*([\.|\,]\d+)?$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_phone':
						if( preg_match( "!^(\d|\s|\-|\/|\(|\)|\[|\]|e|x|t|ension|\.|\+|\_|\,|\:|\;){3,}$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'is_url':
						if( preg_match( "!^(https?|ftp)://(-\.)?([^\s/?\.#-]+\.?)+(/[^\s]*)?$!", urldecode( $_POST[ $id ] ) ) )
						{
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;
					case 'captcha':
						$ver = $_POST[ $id . '_verifier' ];
						$reverse = strrev( $ver );

						if( $ver[ $reverse[0] ] == $_POST[ $id ] )
						{
							unset( $_POST[ $id ], $_POST[ $id . '_verifier'] );
							return 'valid';
						}
						break;

				} //end switch

				$this->submit_form = false;
				$this->validation_error = true;
				return 'error';
			}
		}
	}
}